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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 6, 1928)
Society Bv MARGARET LONG Time Short Before Spring Vacation The time not spent in worrying and fretting over exams, which make their formal bow to the cam pus in general one week from today is being utilized by college maids in preparing social functions to fill their days at spring vacation. As the larger part of co-eds will spend the holidays in Portland, this wiil be the center of social affairs, a great number of them to be in honor of students who expect to enter the University next fall. Plans for several fraternity and sorority dances are being formulated and there will be innumerable fens and line, parties. From the moment when the college student finishes her last exam and boards the train for home to the hour when she returns for registration, March 26, her va cation will be a busy one. University Day Chairmen To Have Dinner Members of the University Day committee, who have been working this term on plans for dances to be given in various places fliroughout the state of Oregon, Friday evening, March 23, will be guests at a din ner at Hendricks Hall, Monday night, March 12. The affair has been arranged in order to complete all arrangements for the dances, and to give the individual chairmen the opportunity to meet with one an other and learn what is being done in other communities regarding University Day, exclusive of their own. Miss Edith Dodge is general chairman of University Day, and will speak at the dinner. Other guests, besides the committee chair men,* will be Mrs. George T. Ger linger, and Mr. R. W. Price of Portland, Mrs. Virginia Judy Estor ly, and Miss Jeannette Calkins. New Thespians Honor Old Members Following an old custom for ac tive members of Thespian, freshman honorary, to entertain members of the past year, this year’s Thdspiajjs wrere hostesses at a line party at the McDonald theater, Saturday afternoon. Bridge and dancing was enjoyed afterwards at the Kappa Alpha Theta house. The' active members and their guests were: Elizabeth Crissel, Amy Porter, Glenua Heaeock, Mau rine Akers, Beatrice Milligan, Bess Templeton, Margaret Cummings, Marvin Jane Hawkins, Emily Wil liams, Betty Brown, Dorothy Bell, Margaret Moss, Harriet Atchison, and Wilma Enke. * * * Dr. and Mrs. George Rebec en tertained about twenty guests at a supper party Sunday evening at their home on College Crest. Guests were students majoring in philoso phy, and faculty members of the philosophy department. The marriage of Miss Margaret McGowan, daughter of Mrs. A. H. McGowan, of Portland, to James Mahan, of Colorado Springs, Colo rado, was solemnized in Chicago last week. Mrs. Mahan attended Reed Col lege in Portland and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1925, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta. Mr. Mahan is a gradu ate of the Universitly of Chicago. The young couple will reside in Chicago, where Mr. Mahan is in business. « * * The only social event scheduled during the remainder of the term is the Miami Triad, a costume dance held annually on the last Friday night of examination week in the winter term by members of Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta, and Beta Theta Pi fraternities. The affair is to celebrate the founding of the three organizations which occurred the same year, at Miami, Florida. Announcement of the engagement j of Miss Mary Skinner, daughter of Matk Skinner of Portland, to Dr. Martin A. Howard, was made known at a large tea, for which Miss Flor ence Skinner entertained, in Port land Saturday afternoon. Miss Skinner graduated from the University of Oregon and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Dr. Howard is a graduate of the University of Oregon and the Uni versity of Oregon Medical School in Portland. Ho is affiliated with Beta Theta Pi and Nu Sigma Nu. No date lias been set for the wed ding. At a dinner honoring Miss Maude Klasgye of Long Beach, California, who is visiting at the Alpha Gain nia Delta house the engagement of I Miss Mildred Johnston to Dr. Estill : L. Brunk of Salem was told. The j table was decorated with a- large We’re Optimistic But _We’re in Oregon and it will rain again. We know it will. With the rain will come some more cold wea ther. We know that too. Get your SLABWOOD now and be pre * ■ pared. Phone 452 Booth-Kelly Lumber Co With FRANK’S MUSIC r, Second Day Playing Now Compelling! Inspiring! Amazing! ! The Noted Actor * CONRAD VEIDT in With BARBARA BEDFORD IAN KEITH GEO. SEIGMUND ALSO Oswald At 8:50 ON THE STAGE Billy Dooley Comedy News ES. 1 “Banjomania” basket of pink rose buds tied with a bow of pink and orchid, and four pink tapers. At each place were miniature brides and grooms, under whose arms were tiny scrolls bear ing the names of the engaged couple. Dr. Brunk graduated from North Pacific Dental College in 1924 and was affiliated with Trowel, the na tional Masonic dental fraternity. The Oregon chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa, together with the chapter i at O. S. C., held its annual Foun i dors’ Day banquet Sunday after noon at the Eugene hotel. Speakers included faculty mem bers 'from the two institutions, as |-veil as prominent Portland alumni, in Eugene for the occasion. Eighty !feur Phi Sig’s were present at the | gathering. Wrestling (Continued from page one) came to Portland to meet the Mult nomah club team. Last night, tonight, and possibly tomorrow night Los Angeles is get ting its first taste of a Pacific coast conference basketball series. And they like it. Before last night’s game, over 10,000 seats in the Olym pic Auditorium had been sold. This is the first time that . Coach Leo Calland’s University of Southern California Trojans have ever won a championship. Led by Captain Brunner, center, the Southern Cali fornians are out to give the Uni versity of Washington Huskies a drubbing. Dorm Contract Let by Regents J o Hansen and Hammond Bid Of Portland Wins Hausen and Hammond, Portland contractors, wore awarded tlie con tract to construct the first unit of the new men’s dormitory for the University at a special session of the hoard of regents held Saturday, March .1. The Portland company bid $310,000, against $312,94 bid by Lorenz Brothers, Portland, and $313,000 by Stein Brothers, the only Eugene firm entered. Til® bond issue, which will finance the structure and furnish it, amounts to $375,000. It will be handled by Dean Witter, Portland firm, who bid in co-operation with the Marine National of Seattle, Washington. This firm bid 92.13, with interest at 4% per cent. The rate of interest was particularly attractive, as such a rate reflects the high credit rating of thg institution, the University of ficials point out. Local firms and individuals will be favored whenever possible, states 1?. B. Hammond, of the firm which will erect the building, as to let ting sub-contracts and employing labor. Several Eugene firms have been considered already for part 'of the work. Work on the dormitory, which is expected to bo rushed, so that the structure can bo complete for next (VORLO'm i-AMOUS M DRAMA I OF Th£ I cabarets J ed Harris resents f, DUNNlixiG AND ABBOTT ! MAIL PRICES:.. Lower Floor—10 rows $2.75; last 8 | ORDERS . rows $2.20; balcony, $2.20, $1.05 and $1.10. The Romantic Sensation of Years is Now Here— 'RAMON NOVARRO NORMA SHEARER PRESENTED with a prolog of lilting ^“Student Prince ” selec tions by robert Mcknight & co. Nightly at 7 :20 & fJ :20 The brilliant score played by— I FREDDY HOLT PRICES Matinee 35c Night 50c I (fall, win be started in the near fu j ture, it is planned. Capacity for the hall has been in j creased from 271 to 278 men. The roof will be of asbestos, with copper flashings, making this part abso ; lately, fireproof. The building will hftvc its own refrigerator plant, which will bo of the latest structure and will include an ice plant and a cork-lined stor age room. The dining rooms will accommodate 500 persons, and will be divided by folding doors, so it forms five separate rooms. This hall can also be used for parties and dances, and will have a floor space almost as large as that now used for similar purposes at the Woman’s building. Each floor will have adequate plumbing facilities, with shower baths, and the entire structure will be roomy.' Regents who were present included Governor I. L. Patterson, Secretary of State Sam A. Kozer, Mrs. G. T. 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